NationStates Jolt Archive

From the last issue I got I learned that the name of the Chief of my Natives is: Dances-With-Concrete Lawnornaments.
What is the most funny or weird name you have seen in the game?

Just read it two days ago:

In Germany, a German judge allowed a family to use the name "Djihad" for their son!:rolleyes:
Source (in German): http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-kurier/print/berlin/161199.html

Translation of the most important:

Djihad - holy war: an Arabic word for hate and death. A term, Ossama Bin Laden used for his WTC attack. Even so, the Berlin District Court decided:
A father from Charlottenburg (city district of Berlin) may name his son Djihad.
(...)
"The man wants to provoke" says film-maker Gert Monheim, (who shoot a film about this issue). "Mr. Seyam declares that Djihad in the Quran means 'feasible acting', 'achieving the possible'. Only in a subsection 'Djihad' refers to 'Holy War'".

The office of the Federal Prosecutor is investigating the Muslim.
Suspicion: Seyam is a member of a terrorist organisation. He's supposed to deal with the bomb attack in Bali in 2002 (202 deaths) and he's supposed to be the European head of bin Laden. However, there's no evidence for that.
He lives from social welfare in Berlin.

Oh well, another example for irreproducible judgement in Germany ...
I will name my kiddy "World War" in Germany this is possible, obviously.:headbang:

How about this one (http://www.theage.com.au/oddspot/)?

A Bulgarian football fan has scored a partial win in his two-year battle to change his name to Manchester United. Marin Levidzhev can now call himself Manchester Levidzhev, but magistrates won't let him change his surname. "I am only at the half-time break," he said.

Just read it two days ago:

In Germany, a German judge allowed a family to use the name "Djihad" for their son!:rolleyes:
Source (in German): http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-kurier/print/berlin/161199.html

Translation of the most important:

Djihad - holy war: an Arabic word for hate and death. A term, Ossama Bin Laden used for his WTC attack. Even so, the Berlin District Court decided:
A father from Charlottenburg (city district of Berlin) may name his son Djihad.
(...)
"The man wants to provoke" says film-maker Gert Monheim, (who shoot a film about this issue). "Mr. Seyam declares that Djihad in the Quran means 'feasible acting', 'achieving the possible'. Only in a subsection 'Djihad' refers to 'Holy War'".

The office of the Federal Prosecutor is investigating the Muslim.
Suspicion: Seyam is a member of a terrorist organisation. He's supposed to deal with the bomb attack in Bali in 2002 (202 deaths) and he's supposed to be the European head of bin Laden. However, there's no evidence for that.
He lives from social welfare in Berlin.

Oh well, another example for irreproducible judgement in Germany ...
I will name my kiddy "World War" in Germany this is possible, obviously.:headbang:

Your 'source' appears to be goose-steppingly racist. 'Jihad' does indeed mean what Hr. Seyam claims it means, furthermore, it is not unusual for Muslims to name their children after religious principles.

colon bush.

the master of, ah hum, in-ter-es-ting names was perhapse none other then ian flemming.

although i like some of the ones rafiel alloysious lafferty came up with, such as gutboy bloodbucket. although harry harrison's james bolivar "slipery jim" degriz, the stainless steel rat in the concrete wainscotting of society was perhapse another interesting one.

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I've always thought the name Hughbert Gerald Rections was funny, because abbreviated it becomes Hugh G Rections. Think on it, and you'll understand. In fact... you shouldn't have to think on it.

Also - A REAL name mind you: Dusan Mandic.
Mandic? hahaha That's the worst last name ever.

And I thought my name sucked...

And I thought my name sucked...

Likewise. Mine's Dhvanit. Try getting people to pronounce that correctly.
It hasn't worked these past twenty years, so good luck.

Likewise. Mine's Dhvanit. Try getting people to pronounce that correctly.
It hasn't worked these past twenty years, so good luck.

Get em to call you Dave instead. Problem solved.

Get em to call you Dave instead. Problem solved.

I've been referred to as Don for the past year and a half. Dave just doesn't sound right for me.

You must all be doing something really special to get such weird names. :p

My sister went to high school with a girl named - no joke - Tinker Bell. She took her husband's last name when she got married, for obvious reasons.

On the other hand, I knew a girl whose first name was Charity, whom all of her friends begged to keep her own last name when she got married. Because the guy she was marrying was named Greg Ho. Think about it. :D

And one in the family: My mother-in-law's last name is Kickasola. And she was a high school teacher. Care to guess what all of the kids called her?

Of course, there's always the NASCAR driver Dick Trickle. Sounds like a slang name for a veneral disease, doesn't it?

A friend of my dad's, named...

... Wincent.

*shudders*

A friend of my dad's, named...

... Wincent.

*shudders*

Let me guess, he's Polish. (Or possibly Czech, but I think it's a much more common name among Poles.) :D

Let me guess, he's Polish. (Or possibly Czech, but I think it's a much more common name among Poles.) :D
Chinese, funnily enough... :confused:

You must all be doing something really special to get such weird names. :p

Aside from being born into an Indian family...no, not really.

Your 'source' appears to be goose-steppingly racist. 'Jihad' does indeed mean what Hr. Seyam claims it means, furthermore, it is not unusual for Muslims to name their children after religious principles.

It's yellow press, yes. Actually I read it in the printout news and searched for an online source via Google news. Anyway, you'll hardly find racist newspapers in Germany. Anyway, meanwhile the Ministry of the Interior's senator filed a complaint and it seems, that ultimately, the name will not be approved.
Germany has a strict right to name anyway.
I've read a story about another problem with naming in the eighties, when there were lots of anti-nuclear movements and parents wanted to name their son "Atomfried" :D
It was rejected, too.

Your 'source' appears to be goose-steppingly racist. 'Jihad' does indeed mean what Hr. Seyam claims it means, furthermore, it is not unusual for Muslims to name their children after religious principles.

Right, like naming your kid Grace.

From the last issue I got I learned that the name of the Chief of my Natives is: Dances-With-Concrete Lawnornaments.
What is the most funny or weird name you have seen in the game?
Well your nations name is interesting...
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